This year’s winner of the IBO Design Award for laboratory equipment present new approaches to standard lab equipment industrial design that are both visually appealing, and increase the device’s functionality and ease of use. Lab equipment is defined as systems used in the lab that receive an electrical current, are operational for a minimum of […]

R&D is on the rise in China, as the country attracted $5.5 billion in 88 foreign greenfield R&D projects from 2010 to 2014, according to fDi Markets. This places China at the top globally in amount invested in such projects, and second in number of projects to the US, which had 91. The pharmaceuticals, business […]

An assessment of 265 biopharmaceutical facilities in the 35 countries comprising the Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region found that the combined production of the sites in 2014 was more than 2.4 million L. Among the sites, 26%, 18%, 15% manufactured recombinant proteins only, vaccines only, or “other” (excluding mAbs and blood processing), […]

This month, US President Obama and the EPA unveiled the Clean Power Plan, which regulates emissions from new, modified and reconstructed power plants. The Plan, when fully implemented, calls for carbon, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides emissions from power plants to be reduced nationally to 32%, 90% and 72% below 2005 levels, respectively. States must […]

Company Announcements MR Solutions announced in March that it now provides maintenance and upgrade support for existing Agilent Technologies MRI preclinical imaging systems. ASD, a PANalytical company, named PT Multi Teknindo Infotronika as an Indonesian distributor. In May, Spectro Scientific announced a joint marketing agreement with Wärtsilä Services Switzerland to develop a specialized version of […]

Company Announcements In May, Dotmatics named LABINDIA as a distributor. Bluebee raised $1.9 million to commercialize its cloud-based distributed computing system for genomics. Cypher Genomics announced a collaboration with Celgene to discover novel genomic biomarkers. Dassault Systèmes is coleading the second phase of the French government’s Industry of the Future project to digitally transform industry. […]

Company Announcements N-of-One signed a business partner agreement with Affymetrix in May to provide CNV analysis interpretation for Affymetrix OncoScan assay customers. KromaTiD announced a distribution agreement with Tokyo Future Style for Japan. Sigma-Aldrich entered into an agreement with XCell Science to launch genetically engineered human neural-differentiated cells and accompanying culture media for neurological disease […]

Company Announcements In June, China-based Annoroad and Illumina announced an agreement to jointly develop advanced clinical applications for reproductive health based on NGS, including a user friendly, prenatal DNA diagnostic system. A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore established a strategic joint lab initiative with Pyrobett, a Singapore-based joint venture of BMS and QIAGEN, to develop a […]

The UK government’s expenditures on science, engineering and technology (SET) in 2013 were £10.9 billion ($17.0 billion), an increase of 9%. In constant prices, the increase was 7%. SET spending accounted for 0.64% of GDP in 2013. Research Councils spent 33% of the total, followed by civil departments and Higher Education Funding Councils, at 25% […]